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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Boston College.
(c) Harvard College.
(d) Yale University.

2. The colonists lost about how many men in the Great Swamp Fight?
(a) 70.
(b) 67.
(c) 25.
(d) 59.

3. What region was the main site of conflict during King Philip's War?
(a) Northern Canada.
(b) Northern New England.
(c) Southern New England.
(d) Eastern Canada.

4. According to the author, the English were particularly brutal when they attacked the Narragansetts' Great Swamp on what date?
(a) December 19, 1675.
(b) November 10, 1674.
(c) August 13, 1677.
(d) September 1, 1675.

5. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?
(a) Stealing from other tribes.
(b) Hunting and fishing.
(c) Growing plantations for cotton.
(d) Growing massive gardens.

6. Who is thought to have mentored John Sassamon?
(a) John Eliot.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) James Williams.
(d) John Alderman.

7. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?
(a) Appease the gods.
(b) Purify their blood.
(c) Eradicate the colonists.
(d) Preserve the Indian way of life.

8. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Namasket.
(b) Metacom.
(c) Wampapaquan.
(d) Nahauton.

9. What does "bashaba" mean?
(a) Child of the shaman.
(b) Enemy.
(c) Chief of chiefs.
(d) White man.

10. When was William Hubbard born?
(a) 1621.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1676.

11. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Shaman.
(b) Wigwam.
(c) Totem.
(d) Tipi.

12. When was A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England published?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1677.

13. Passaconaway was a powerful medicine man and sachem of what tribe?
(a) The Mohegan tribe.
(b) The Cherokee tribe.
(c) The Mohawk tribe.
(d) The Penacook tribe.

14. According to the author, the colonists thought the powwaws received their orders from whom?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Mohammad.
(c) God.
(d) Jesus.

15. The colonists considered news distributed by whom to be the least reliable, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) Cambridge newspapers.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The English.
(d) Boston newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did William Hubbard write at the order of the Colonial government, which paid him 50 pounds for it?

2. A prodigious learner, Hugo Grotius entered the University of Leiden when he was how old?

3. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?

4. In 1600 the Wampanoag lived primarily in what two states?

5. King Philip's War began in June of what year?

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